To truly look inside
2016; Elsevier BV; Volume: 387; Issue: 10025 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30027-7
ISSN1474-547X
Autores Tópico(s)Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
Resumo200 years ago, in 1816, French physician René Laennec rolled a sheet of paper into a tube to auscultate the chest of a young female patient with suspected tuberculosis. Laennec went on to make his first stethoscope from two pieces of hollowed wood: one was placed against the physician's ear; the other, with a funnel-shaped cone at the end, was placed on the patient's chest. Little did Laennec realise the scientific maelstrom that would greet this new diagnostic instrument, and indeed the parallels that could be drawn to the introduction of handheld ultrasound into clinical practice some 200 years later. Cardiology technology—from old to newToday's Lancet brings together a collection of cardiology research and commentary ahead of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA (April 2–4). The theme of this year's meeting is ignite innovation, as the ACC invites delegates to think in new and disruptive ways, in the context of current rapid technological change. Full-Text PDF Eric Topol: innovator in cardiology and digital medicineEric Topol, Professor of Genomics and Director of the Scripps Translational Science Unit in La Jolla, San Diego, California, seems to have the perfect job. He combines one day a week in the clinic, imparting 30 years of knowledge as a leading cardiologist, with his real passion—research in what he sees as the greatest revolution medicine has ever seen. By this he means smart medicine, the era of big data, bioinformatics, and consumer genomics, enthusiastically articulated in his 2015 book The Patient Will See You Now. Full-Text PDF
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